Screencasting on Fedora [20]

To start with, did you know you can record a screencast on Fedora just by pressing CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-R?

No?

Me either. How fantastically easy is that?

Once you’ve pressed the keys, you get a little red circle in the top right of your screen that indicates recording is on. When you’re done, just press CTRL-SHIFT-ALT-R again to stop.

The file will be automatically saved in your <user>/Videos folder with a name along the lines of:

Screencast from 17-10-14 11_57_52.webm

Importantly, this DOES NOT record audio.

Well that’s annoying.

Yes, it is.

If you want to record audio, you need to do a couple of extra things. Firstly, install gnome media apps:

yum install gnome-media-apps

And restart your computer.

Once you’ve rebooted, type:

gnome-sound-recorder

on the command line and a little box will pop up that lets you record audio. It’s easy to use – press the red record button to start and the square to stop. You have to manually save the audio file that you record.

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As of Fedora 21, the gnome-sound-recorder app has been renamed from gnome-media-apps to just gnome-sound-recorder. The latest versions (3.14.x) are undergoing a redevelopment, so it looks different and some of the functionality has been removed while it is being updated.